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This is all you really need to know about people’s car payments:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gifYyVTHIfY

You can find this all over YT. It’s insanity. For the record, my wife drives a 2019 Camry. I drive a 2012 Fiesta. Both paid off. I only have the Fiesta because my sister wanted to sell it and it was a good deal for the times where my wife and I both need to drive. We were a one-car family for a few years.

There are people in my hometown that have car payments higher than their mortgage payments.

Sure he didn’t want to help his children with college, but strangers are going to notice him more due to the car he’s driving and you can’t put a price on that.

Fry: Sorry, I’m not here to buy.

Car Dealer: I understand, and it’s wonderful that you don’t care whether anyone questions your sexual orientation.

Fry: I care! I care plenty! But I just don’t know how to make them stop!

Car Dealer: One word: Thundercougarfalconbird.

My understanding is that turning off and on a diesel engine is not great for it or something like that. Sorry, my grandpa was a mechanic and I’m half remembering something he said.

This is generally a bad idea in most cities. It’s downright crazy in New York.

In a way that can’t really be described to Europeans. If you live in a suburban area, people think you’re weird if you do anything other than use your car to get anywhere for any reason. Almost everywhere in the US is designed around the idea that you have a car and you use it every day.

This is about my city:

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And it’s absolutely true. Our buses are mostly useful for driving to a Park & Ride/Transit Center and then to work and back. That’s about it.

Social Distortion releases early demos on vinyl.

I’ve never had a Reddit account so I guess that I’ve never been banned, technically.

Which will break down first? A well maintained car or a well maintained horse?

I knew two of my great grandmothers (yay for really young parents!). I know I met two others but didn’t really know them.

I was told that I met my great great grandmother once when I was a toddler but I don’t remember it. She died at age 99.

Of course you can fork it, but you can’t call it Mastodon. That’s trademarked. Just like how you can fork Firefox but have to call it Waterfox or Iceweasel or Librewolf.

The confusion here is between Mastodon the company and Mastodon the software and instances of the running software. Eugen Rochko owns the first two. He also owns the instances mastodon.social and mastodon.online. Everything else is outside of his control.

It was never controlled by a single person to begin with.

The computer program called Mastodon was (and still is for now) completely controlled by Eugen Rochko. In the future it will be controlled by a non-profit.

See this and this for more info.

You can see exactly what he made in 2023. The report is available here.

€60k

the retailer is generally considered oblivious to the situation until proven otherwise they have zero incentive to vet the product.

In fact they are willfully ignorant because selling counterfeit merchandise helps line go up.

Yes but he’s a multimillionaire so that makes his complaint irrelevant.

Yes and it’s likely that they will not be allowed to any longer after Google lost their anti-trust case.

I made it through. My degree is actually in math. 15 years ago, I used to know what an abelian group is!

We were on quarters, so we had calc 1-4. Makes sense that Calc 2 was rough if you were on semesters.

Where I’m from Calc 2 is integrals. That wasn’t so terrible. It was Calc 3 (vectors and series) that was the hard one.